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INTAKE 2
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Let's continue what we started. Do keep in mind this service continues to evolve as we build it together to best fit your specific situation and need.
Brief introduction to the IPM to illuminate how power differentials can be owned.
PDF samples of sessions, one from each kind of service.
Video tutorials how to download and use this privacy-secure video chat app.
Step 2: Intake step 2
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Welcome to your intake process. Before we do anything else, we need to capture where you're at with your economic despair.
Assess your emotional wellbeing & Assess your impacted functionality
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Impact Parity Model
Power differentials
The psychosociotherapy provided here specifically addresses power differentials. That is where one person exerts more control over a situation than another. If someone routinely exerts more control over something you need, you understandably feel less powerful in that situation.
Using the word "power" may be misleading. As an indigenous person, I have a different understanding of power than how that term gets widely used in academia. To keep this accessible, I do use the academic definition of power: "the ability to compel others to do what you want them to do" (Dahl, 1957).
Impact parity model
To understand these impactful power differentials, we at Value Relating use what we call the impact parity model.
Your needs are impacted by someone or some entity with more control over what you need. The impact parity model calls this the impactor. Until widely agreed that person or entity does in fact have that kind of control, we defer to ascribed impactor (abbreviated as AI). Later, this can be changed to acknowledged impactor.
You, as the one comparatively vulnerable to their impact, are referred to as the impactee. Until widely agreed you are in fact less powerful to the other, we defer to reporting impactee (abbreviated as RI). Later, this can be switched to recognized impactee.
This can quickly get complicated. What if an ascribed impactor is simply doing their job? So we may use the term "upchain" and "downchain" to characterize such situations. Or "crosschain" when your AI claims she must consult her co-equal partner or peers.
New vocabulary to speak truth to power
Ascribed Impactor (AI): the
Reporting Impactee (RI): the
Upchain Impactor (UI):
IMPACTOR
IMPACTEE
AI
IMPACTOR
RI
IMPACTEE
the one with more control in a mostly impersonal professional relationship
the one with less control in a mostly impersonal professional relationship
Measurable impact on wellness
The impact parity model stems from anakelogy. It is observant rather than normative. It maintains the disciplined description to see what is fully there, without rushing to declare what must be done about it before all the facts are in.
As a tool of applied anakelogy, the model involves testable hypotheses so all can share in its understanding. For example, the more impersonal the professional relationship, the easier for each side to operate unchecked from generalizations that overlook specific needs.
The more your specific needs are being overlooked, the more likely you endure pain, as indicated by your situation attributable levels of:
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irritation,
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anxiety,
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depression,
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guilt, and
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powerlessness.
The more the impactor knows and respects those impacted needs, the less pain you're likely to endure, as indicated by a drop in your situation attributable levels of:
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irritation,
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anxiety,
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depression,
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guilt, and
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powerlessness.
Depletes wellness for both sides, although less apparent to the one
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trusted generalizations
overlooked specifics
employer - employee
prosecutor - defendant
politician - citizen
unfunded passionate purpose
wrongfully convicted
politically excluded
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As a tool of applied anakelogy, the model involves testable hypotheses so all can share in its understanding. A key measure is how alleviating the pressures from such power differentials can significantly change one's anxiety and depression, along with others signals of wellness.
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their coercive influence on you
your painfully impacted needs
Next, orientation to this process. See you on the other side.
We experience "value" in how we experience one another's reponses to our needs. The more responsive another seems to be to your need the more value they hold for you. The less responsive to your need the less value you tend to see in them.
Value Relating primarily addresses sociogenic factors contributing to poor wellness outcomes. By "sociogenic" we mean "orignating from social" factors. We complement the vast amount of services already addressing psychogenic and biogenic factors.
By overemphasizing internal factors we needlessly stigmatize those overwhelmed by external factors. Wellness slips out of reach when factors beyond our control crash into on our capacities to survive, and limiting our chances to thrive. Indeed, we wonder why there is less or no stigma upon external culprits negatively impacting our wellness.
our needs
their needs
your needs
Wellness is psychosocial. Where there is a lack of mental health issues we can expect to find a balance between healthy autonomy and social connection. Between self-resiliency and reliable social supports. It's a beautiful balance between internal and external supports.
The notion that mental health is squarely within the individual is an artifact of Western rugged individualism. This individualism myth emerged in response to the oppressive nature of medieval religion centuries ago. To get caught in either extreme cannot be good for our personal and shared well-being.
psychosocial reduction
reactive vacillation
relive-over-resolve
Value Relating exists to encourage that needed balance.
How can we know?
Script to a sample session
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But doesn't that encourage irresponsibility? That's what I was always taught.
Psychosociotherapy is not like psychotherapy. We're not trying to change you but help you change your situation.
Psychosociotherapy recognizes your responsibility to yourself is only as good as other's responsibility toward you.
You mean I don't have to adjust to a messed up world? That I can help improve that world?
Exactly.
Then I'd like to see how I can improve my workplace environment. My boss snaps direct orders to me to do her bidding, but as an internally motivated worker, I can only focus from my own motivations to serve our customers.
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Each script follows the outline laid out in the service plan template. It offers a guide for how sessions could unfold, but does not promise your sessions will appears exactly this way, or even close. Your situation and needs are unique enough to deviate significantly from these scripted exchanges.
Currently, only the transjudicial service is ready to move forward. Do keep in mind the sample shared here is also a work in progress.
How this all plays could quickly change. Like the best of any plans, impact with reality will inevitably change them. Care to help be the change agent?
VSee tutorial
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